Alarm Grades; Life-Threatening Alarms - Dräger Infinity Series User Manual

Alarm Grades

The monitor annunciates both audible and visual alarms to alert
you to significant changes in the patient's condition and to mal-
functions of the equipment that may affect the accuracy of mea-
surements.
All alarms fall under one of three alarm grades:
Life-threatening.
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Serious.
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Advisory.
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If the monitor detects more than one alarm at a time, it annunci-
ates the alarm with the alarm highest priority.

Life-Threatening Alarms

A life-threatening has the highest alarm priority. The monitor
triggers life-threatening alarms for asystole, ventricular fibrilla-
tion, ventricular tachycardia, and bradycardia (bradycardia in
neonatal mode only).
A life-threatening alarm has the following characteristics:
The HR parameter box blinks and appears red.
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The monitor emits a continuous warble tone.
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The monitor displays the alarm cause in both the parameter
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box and the message area.
The alarm continues until you press the
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key, the
alarm off (see the section Alarm Settings, below).
WA RN I N G : If HR alarms and arrhythmia detection are
turned off, the monitor does not alarm for asystole and
ventricular fibrillation.
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fixed key, or turn that parameter's
All Alarms OFF
Infinity Gamma Series
fixed
Alarm Silence
VF4